Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-12-02


or square, or angular, or octagon.
Nothing in all the world is too hig for
its mastication and digestion, save the
truth, and that will stick in its gullet.
Furthermore, this monster, called lie,
is gregarious. 1t goes in flock win
others Of its kind, and if one takes after
a man or woman there are at least ten III
its company. As soon as anything DAD
is charged against man there are many
others who have things Just as deleterl-
Gus. Lies about himself, lies about his
family, lies about his associates, lies
about his house, lies about his barn, lies
about his store. Swarms ofthem, Oroods
of them, herds of them. Kill one OF
them and there will be twelve alive 10
act as its pallbearers, another to preach
its funeral sermon, and still another 10
write its obituary. These monsters beat
all the extinct species. They are white,
spotted, and black. They have slick
hide and sharp claw, and sting in their
tail. They prowl through every street
in the city. crouch in the restaurants,
sleep in the halls of Congress, and in the
grandest parlor have one paw under
the piano and the other on the door-sill.
"How many people spend half their
time in limiting lies. You see man
rushing about to correct a newspaper
paragraph or husband with fist clinch-
ed on his way to pound some one who
has told false thing about his house
hold. Oh, the folly of such hunting
excursion, for these monsters have such
long legs and 60 hundred miles at
jump. You might as well give up the
chase, for they have such keenness OF
nostrils they can observe your coming
clear across the State and get out OF
your way, for they have such long ears
they can hear the hunters first step in
the woods, for they have such great
throats they can swallow you at gulp,
for they are gregarIous. and while you
shoot one, forty will run ppOn you like
mad buflalos and stamp you to death.
Arrows bound back from their thick
hide, and Us for gunpOwder, they use 1t
regularly for pinches of snuff. After a
shower Of bullets has struck their side
they lift their hind foot to scratch the
place, supposing only black fly has
been biting. Henry VII, in hawking
party on foot, attempted to leap ditch
at Herefordshire, and with his immense
avOirdupois weight went splashing into
the mud and slime, and was hauled out
by his fOotman half dead, and that is the
fate of men who spend their time hunt
lug for lies. Better go TO work and let
the lies run. Their bloody muzzles have
tough work with u man usually busy
You cannot so easily overcome them
with sharp retort as with adze and yard
stick. All the bowling Of California
wolves at night does not stop the sun
from kindiing victorious morn on the
Sierra Nevddas, and the rawlings OF def
amation and revenge cannot hinder the
resplendent dawn Of heaven on right
eous soul. By all reasonable means set
yourself right, but do not get hot, fret
ful, and eXasperated, for in such mood
you do yourself more harm than your
enemy can possibly accomplish.
Under all the assaults Of this life cul-
tivate Christian good humor, but my
chief object in these remarks is to excite
in you disgust for the gossip aud scan
dalizalion always abroad in every COM
muuity. This disposition to hurl peo-
pie down and gloat over their disaster is
simply dIabolical. Our Lord, in the
best sermon ever preached, said: Judge
not that We 5e not Judged Put me down
for the defendant in every case that
comes up between now and the hour OF
my death, until the guilt of the defend
ant is demonstrated, and then, instead
of gloating over his fall, will try to
help him up and pray for his pardon to
an all forgiving God.
81 am sorry for Jacob Sharp, although
he deserved the pcnitentiary. lam sOr-
ry for the Chicago anarchists, although
they deserved the sentence they suf-
fered. am sorry for the long process
sion who pass through the criminal
courts TO incarceration, whether their
imprisonment be righteous or unjust. |
am sorry for everybody in trouble. |
abhOr the spirit which says in regard TO
any of the fallen. good for them Such
a spirit is poor. Return to the God who
decreed that the cradle of our infancy
should be rocked by Christian mothers,
and who has all our lives long encom
passed us by elevating influences. Give
all who are assailed the benefit Of the
doubt. Peddle no scandal, listen not TO
whisperers, and remember the resound-
ing and portentous words of the in
spireG apostle who declared, He shall
have Judgment without mercy that hath
showed no mercy"
An old gentleman OF Detroit was pass
ing through the ceremoiIy of taking his
fourth wife the other day. At the i'm
pressiye climax of the good preacher
mans part of the performance. some
body was heard sobbing in an adjoining
room.
My goodness " exclaimed one OF the
guests in dramatic whisper, "who on
earth is that crying on this festive occa-
sion?"
"That!" replied a mischievous MEM
Der of the bridegroom's family. 'Thats
nobody but En-. She always boOhoos
when pas getting married"
n-oLo Taachar-YeE my children